Archive record · Brewery
Oxus Brewing Company
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Founded
- 2018
- Archive ID
- TB-JQG304JQ
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.
From the record
Summary
Production brewery / taproom. Official site plus Tourism Winnipeg identifies small craft brewery.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Oxus is an unsung hero of clean brewing technique — crisp, traditional European lagers and ambers that satisfy purists and convert macro drinkers. It also hosts other people's brands, making it quietly load-bearing for the city's scene.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Sean Shoyoqubov2016
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
2021 Winnipeg Free Press identifies Sean Shoyoqubov as owner; earlier startup interview said Sean would be sole owner/brewmaster. Current operation remains active, but 2026 equity continuity is not directly established. Source: SRC-CA-1723; SRC-CA-1891
- Founded by Sean ShoyoqubovDate unknown
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0382 ("OWNER / FOUNDER — LATEST DIRECT OWNER EVIDENCE"). Tajikistan-born, came to Canada for an IT career, founded Winnipeg's Oxus Brewing (named for Central Asia's great river) at 1180 Sanford. The pass dated the claim 2016; the cited sources do not confirm a founding year, so none is asserted.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 1180 Sanford Street, Winnipeg, MBWinnipeg, Manitoba
PRODUCTION
Operated by Oxus Brewing Company
Site detail
Official site plus Tourism Winnipeg identifies small craft brewery.
Where it is
49.88120, -97.18760
Supplied by the research pass; method not recorded
Open on a mapThe People
Behind the beer
The Beer Library
Beers
Astra Amber
Year-RoundInternational Lager
2024 Prairie beer awards. 2024 Prairie Beer Awards bronze in International Lager.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Astra Premium International Lager
Year-RoundJuice of the Oats Oatmeal Stout
Year-RoundOatmeal Stout
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Transoxania IPA
Year-RoundIPA
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Canadian Dream Blonde Ale
Year-RoundBlonde Ale
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Neipula Ale
Year-RoundNew England IPA
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Icarus Raspberry Sour Ale
Year-RoundRaspberry Sour Ale
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Woland Russian Imperial Stout
Year-RoundRussian Imperial Stout
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Vostok Launch Double IPA
Year-RoundDouble IPA
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Vostok The Orbit Double IPA
Year-RoundDouble IPA
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Astra Strong
Year-RoundStrong Lager
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Astra Premium Lager
Year-RoundLager
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →The Dream Ukrainian Lager
Year-RoundUkrainian Lager
Verified on Manitoba Liquor Marts' current Oxus producer page. ABV left UNKNOWN because the producer listing retrieved did not state it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Opus
Year-RoundEuropean Beer
2024 Prairie beer awards. 2024 Prairie Beer Awards bronze in European Beers.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hefeweizen
Year-RoundBavarian Hefeweizen
Current Manitoba Liquor Mart product. (CURRENT / PACKAGED) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bookstore Brewing — The Quick Fix Coffee Cream Ale
Year-RoundCoffee Cream Ale
Bookstore brand owned by Parris Filbert; recipe development delegated to Ryan Fisher; physically brewed at Oxus. (CURRENT / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bookstore Brewing — Another Deadly Sin
Year-RoundEnglish Amber Ale
Current retail; production attribution to Oxus. (CURRENT / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND / AWARD-LINKED) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bookstore Brewing — A Brighter Shade of Doom
Year-RoundBlack New England IPA
Current retail; production attribution to Oxus. (CURRENT / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND / AWARD-LINKED) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bookstore Brewing — Flirting With Goth
Year-RoundDark Ale
Current retail; production attribution to Oxus. (CURRENT / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND / AWARD-LINKED) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bookstore Brewing — Steal the Moon
Year-RoundHazy Pale Ale
Current retail; production attribution to Oxus. (CURRENT / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dastardly Villain — A Necessary Evil IPA
Year-RoundIPA
Free Press identifies Oxus contract production; festival confirms current beer. (CURRENT 2026 / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dastardly Villain — Nefarious Plan
Year-RoundDry-Hopped Yellow Ale
Current festival beer; production at Oxus. (CURRENT 2026 / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dastardly Villain — Rusty Baboon
Year-RoundLight IPA
Current festival beer; production at Oxus. (CURRENT 2026 / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dastardly Villain — The Villainess
Year-RoundBaltic Porter
Current festival beer; production at Oxus. (CURRENT 2026 / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →FullGeek BrewLab — Bahamut India Pale Lager
Year-RoundIndia Pale Lager
46 IBU; current retail. FullGeek shares 1180 Sanford address and 2024 source explicitly identifies Oxus production. (CURRENT/RECENT / CONTRACT-BREWED BRAND) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Travel Guide
Plan a visit
- Industrial taproom
- Hosts incubator brands
- Growler fills
- Retail cans
On the record
Awards
- 2024
SILVER — International Lager
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
BRONZE — International Lager
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
BRONZE — European Beers
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
International Lager — Astra Amber
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
International Lager — Astra Premium Lager
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
European Beers — Opus
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
Gold — Black IPA / exact competition category per award source not independently retrieved here — Bookstore Brewing — A Brighter Shade of Doom
Canada Beer Cup
- 2024
Gold — Dark Ale / exact competition category not independently retrieved here — Bookstore Brewing — Flirting With Goth
Canadian Brewing Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
1 organisations
Connected suppliers & bodies
- prairie beer awardsAwarded2024SILVER — International Lager
- prairie beer awardsAwarded2024BRONZE — International Lager
- prairie beer awardsAwarded2024BRONZE — European Beers
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://oxusbrewing.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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